Category Archives: Providence
“God’s megaphone” by C.S. Lewis
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” –C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (New York: HarperCollins, 1940/1996), 91.
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“And it was God’s will” by Jon Bloom
“The Holy Family’s first few years were not tranquil. They were filled with grueling travel during the hardest part of pregnancy, a birth in worse than a barn, no steady income, an assassination attempt, two desert crossings on foot with … Continue reading
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“All things work for good” by Thomas Watson
“If the worst things work for good to a believer, what shall the best things– Christ, and heaven! How much more shall these work for good! If the cross has so much good in it, what has the crown? If … Continue reading
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“What Thou will, when Thou will, and how Thou will” by John Newton
“It is not necessary for me to be rich, or what the world accounts wise. It is not necessary for me to be healthy, or admired by my fellow-worms. It is not necessary for me to pass through life in … Continue reading
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“The education of sharp trial” by Theodore Cuyler
“God’s people are never so exalted as when they are brought low, never so enriched as when they are emptied, never so advanced as when they are set back by adversity, never so near the crown as when under the … Continue reading
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“Repose in the providence of God” by John Calvin
“There is nothing more calculated to increase our faith, than the knowledge of the providence of God because, without it, we would be harassed with doubts and fears, being uncertain whether or not the world was governed by chance. For … Continue reading
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